Angel In The Storm 

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A storm is but a thousand winds. Moments pass by fleetly, yet we often find ourselves at the face of reluctance. With this body of work, “fear” no longer arises because of uncertainty – rather, the will to let go of such restraints. It is in his precarious pursuit of both uncertainty and clarity that redefined the significance of tension in his own practice.

 

Angel In The Storm undermines themes of fear and reluctance from uncertainty and restraint in our relationship with one another but more importantly, with ourselves. The urge to fight longing, the hesitation to usher the words – why do we feel the need to flee yet simultaneously embrace before an inescapable storm?  In pursuing the innate musicality of images and versatility of paint as a medium, he examines the intricacies of memories and fiction through compositions of balladic paper birds or shimmering supernatural figures, conveying a lyrical yearn for both an old melody and a crescending chorus. 

 

The magnetic natures of exalt and anguish, light and shadow, forte and quietude thus form the essence of his oeuvre. The winds will commence violently, but they too can be alleviating. By conducting his tendency to seek these double-edged qualities in compositions, they become instruments to mold the operatic visual narratives in his works. After all, such dramatic extremes between alleviation and affliction render them near indistinguishable. Like an angel in the vortex of a storm, what is dangerous can be alluring, and what is vicious can be a reckoning.